Friendship Quotes

When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.

There isn’t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren’t really living without it.

You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman’s name and claim to love her.

It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

All people want is someone to listen.

I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.

It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of.

Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.

We are like oil and water, but all my other relationships are like oil and vinegar! Delicious!

Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.

You don't get to pick your own nickname. They've gotta give you one. It's like we're all tryin' to make pets out of each other and we're not comfortable unless we get to name 'em.

Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves.

Friendship is being there when someone's feeling low and not being afraid to kick them.

Friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

We did not start as friends, but as people who respected and admired each other. Crucial, absolutely crucial for a partnership. As soon as we could afford it, we ceased sharing lodgings. Equally crucial.

The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial; but generally speaking, it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber: it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! and unfortunately, there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.

She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

However difficult it is to be the homely friend of a reputed beauty, there are certain benefits. Most days, the humiliation of being the second choice is outweighed by the overflow of disappointed gentlemen.

An old friend is like a tender memory or a comfortable shoe. It takes years of caring to get to that point.

Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

We are advertis'd by our loving friends.

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.

To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

A good friend of my son's is a son to me.

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion.

A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one!'

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

My coat and I live comfortably togther. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm. Old coats and old friends are the same thing.

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

A friend is one before whom you may think aloud.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

True friends stab you in the front.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island�.to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

A friend is able to see you as the wonderful person God created you to be.

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.

Friends have all things in common.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep, for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

A friend is the hope of the heart.

No human relation gives one possession in another...every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship and in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, wheather in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we know.

You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.

My friends are my estate.

Those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.

Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.